I have never left

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When I was very young I wasn’t catechized properly so we missed Mass a lot. I didn’t leave, but I wasn’t really Catholic except through Baptism and that was a bit later in my life.
 
Add my voice to the chorus of Catholics here who drifted away from obedience, prayer, the Mass, and the sacraments, and by the grace of God came back even closer to God. The Good Shepherd doesn’t stop looking for those lost sheep and leading them back. Give thanks and praise to God!
 
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I never left, never stopped going to Sunday mass and confession.I thank God for the year I wasn’t living the ideal catholic life that I never stopped going to weekly mass and confessions .
 
I never left, although in my early 20s I was not a very good Catholic. I typically went to mass on Sundays, but that was about it. I never considered leaving the Church. I just became a lukewarm Catholic. I reached a point in my mid to late 20s where I decided I needed to better understand why I was a Catholic, and through studying the faith and the history of the Church, I became much more serious about my faith. Never really had doubts, just wanted to know more.
 
I never left. I never missed Sunday mass. In college I would ask the Catholics who was going to mass in the morning and I would wake them up, per V II no evening masses. Confession sometimes got spaced out because I was always confessing the same sin and I doubted God would forgive me again. I am still a sinner but would be lost without the Sacraments.
 
I have never left.

I have always attended Mass, received the sacraments, married in the Church, raised my children in the Church. I have followed all the teachings (even the hard ones that many struggle with) and teach Sunday school. I volunteer at my parish in various ministries.

I don’t know for how much longer that will be my answer.
 
I think it would behoove all of us who have never left to acknowledge that it is largely do to the grace of God. We all have family members and friends, many of almost identical background and upbringing, who have fallen away from the faith. There but for the grace of God go I.
 
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I don’t think any of us are saying we’re extra awesome and special for not leaving. People are stating the facts of what happened. To me it’s sort of like people saying they never divorced their spouse.

Obviously a strong faith is a gift from God and all of us can accomplish anything we do only through Him. But when an OP asks the question, “who has never left?” people should be able to answer without having to qualify it every time.
 
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